Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China (Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series)

This book explores young people's experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted in Beijing over a decade, and focusing especially on dating violence, the book reveals provides insights into a wide range of issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary China. It shows how young Chinese people's attitudes and behaviors are changing as urban China develops rapidly, and how their experience of dating violence and meaning-making are affected by age, gender, location and class. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Discovering dating violence in China -- Two anecdotes -- When love hurts -- APEC Blue and Beijing Smog: imagined paradise -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- 2. Chinese intersectionality: A critical review of gender-based violence research and gender studies in China -- Gender-based violence: the past and present -- The shift of gender-based violence mapping -- The frontier and cutting-edge feminist activism -- When dating is struggling with violence -- Gender, state, and market -- Victimization of women and their representation -- Women, nation and modernity in question -- Women's images in neo-liberal China -- Feminist interaction between local and global -- The rise of intersectionality -- Indigenous endeavor and the dislocation of Confucian ideas -- Chinese intersectionality as a new framework -- Notes -- 3. Dating landscape, power struggles, and love geography -- Dating: pattern, process, and hierarchy -- College students: the matrix of job selection and dating choice -- 'Looking forward' or 'looking only at money'? -- Uncle-Lolita Complex -- Peacock girl and phoenix boy: dating between Beijingers and waidiren -- Thriving in the cosmopolitan city? New Beijingers' everyday conflicts -- Floating population: out of place -- International dating: choice of skin color -- Long-distance relationships: can love stand the separation? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Sassy girl and tender boy: The transformation of doing gender -- Pattern, types, and interpretations -- The paradox of My Sassy Girl -- Willful and therefore 'normal' -- Transformation of aggressive women images -- 'Harmless' due to love, tolerance, and arrogance -- 'Can you just do what I say?' -- Masculinity in flux This book explores young people's experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted in Beijing over a long period, and focusing especially on dating violence, the book reveals insights on a wide range of issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary China. It shows how young Chinese people's attitudes and behaviors are changing as urban China develops rapidly, and how their experience of dating violence and meaning-making process are affected by age, gender, location and class Discovering Dating Violence In China -- Chinese Intersectionality : A Critical Review Of Gender-based Violence Research And Gender Studies In China -- Dating Landscape, Power Struggles, And Love Geography -- Sassy Girl And Tender Boy : The Transformation Of Doing Gender -- Virginity Loss, Sexual Coercion, And The Unfinished Sexual Revolution -- Remapping The Landscape Of Dating, Gender, And Violence. Xiying Wang. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.